Katherine Hyde graciously agreed to become this website's editor, content supervisor, and key writer. She was drafted for this role because she is a professional writer, editor, book designer, layout artist, Russian-to-English translator, and general word person. She has much expertise in Orthodox publishing: she worked on the Orthodox Study Bible team as a project editor at Thomas Nelson, served for five years as assistant editor at Conciliar Press and founding editor of The Handmaiden, and currently serves as managing editor/layout artist for PSALM Notes. However, in our interview, Katherine emphatically stated that she is not in any sense an expert on Orthodoxy: "I'm just a person who tries to express other people's ideas in a concise and readable form."

Katherine came to Christ while a student at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her study of Russian literature, especially of writers like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Andrei Belyi, raised questions that could only be answered by the Christian faith (although it was reading the writings of C. S. Lewis that finally clinched her conversion). Katherine joined a congregation of the Evangelical Orthodox Church in Seattle in 1976 and made the journey to Orthodoxy along with them, receiving chrismation in 1987. "The transition to Orthodoxy was easier for me than for some people because I was so well acquainted with the Russian spirit through my studies," she recalls. She moved to the San Lorenzo Valley and joined this community in 1992.

Katherine told me, "As anyone can probably tell from reading this site, I love the Orthodox Church, and this parish in particular, more than I can express. I'm very grateful that God brought me here, where I always have the example of people who really love God to keep me in the struggle."

In addition to working on the website, Katherine produces the parish's weekly newsletter, the Grapevine, and pitches in whenever the parish or the Academy needs the skills she can offer. She also sings first soprano in the choir. She is married with four children, two grown and two in grade school. With her little spare time and energy, Katherine enjoys writing fiction, reading, needlework, and dancing.

Katherine works freelance and is available to help with Orthodox or secular publishing projects as a writer, editor, designer, or layout artist.